Monday, January 13, 2020

Monday Mania - Part 1

On a relatively mild Monday, here are some manic things going on:

From National Review, Senator Spartacus (D-NJ) suspends his presidential campaign.

From FrontpageMag, Iran has been wanting a war against the U.S. for decades.

From Townhall, the wildfires in Australia are man-made, but from any man-made climate change.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California is forced to withdraw its pollution plans due to its EPA backlog.

From the Washington Examiner, a Canadian CEO who blames President Trump for Iran shooting down a passenger jet is responsible for an illness that took the lives of 22 people.

From The Federalist, Obama national security adviser Ben Rhodes attacks Trump to obscure his own boss's complicity with Iran.

From American Thinker, observe some real pushback, you Republicans.

From CNS News, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) explains his belief about why Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) delayed the impeachment trial in the Senate.

From LifeZette, according to Pelosi, Mr. Bill allowed witnesses to come forth, but Trump won't.  (Whether there are any witness in the impeachment trial would be up to the Senate, not up to the person being tried.)

From NewsBusters, ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz Iran's unity being "shattered" by protests against its government.

From CBC News, more shipping businesses promise to avoid going throught the Arctic.

From Global News, Ottawa plans more events honoring the victims of the plane crash victims in Iran.

From CTV News, former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien celebrates his 86th birthday by going indoor skydiving.  (That might be cool, but in my opinion, it's not nearly as cool as what the late U.S. President George Bush the Elder used to do.)

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan interim President Juan Guaido again promises to intercept TeleSUR's TV signal.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Conservative Woman, don't believe left-wing lies about Iran.

From Snouts in the Trough, keep on murdering and the cowards in the media won't notice.

From Free West Media, U.K. police classify Extinction Rebellion as a terrorist organization.

From the Express, could Prince Harry and Meghan Markle lose their Sussex titles?

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson praises the compromise that returned powersharing to Northern Ireland.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to the E.U., Johnson's Brexit trade deal "will end frictionless trade".

From the (Irish) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson and Irish Taoiseach Varadkar make a joint statement on cooperation after Brexit.

From the Irish Examiner, the Dublin City Council denies using drones to monitor private property.

From EuroNews, Prime Minister Johnson speaks to Northern Ireland's new Assembly.

From VRT NWS, Belgium has a new surge in people seeking asylum.

From the NL Times, over 2,500 children have disappeared from Dutch asylum centers in 10 years.

From Dutch News, have you seen the little piggies blocking the A67 motorway?

From Deutsche Welle, dozens of German cities offer to take in more refugees.

From the CPH Post, a vandal paints "Free Hong Kong" on the Little Mermaid statue in Langelinie, Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, an annual charity event in Poland raises millions of złotych for sick children.

From Radio Prague, will 2020 be the year of Czech lace?

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia gets the last three of its nine Black Hawk helicopters from the U.S.

From Daily News Hungary, some cultural information for Westerners doing business in Hungary.

From Hungary Today, a Hungarian army boat will patrol the Tisza River to prevent illegal entry.

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary went from last to first in economic growth in ten years.

From Sputnik International, scientists in Siberia develop a medicine to protect oysters from disease.

From The Moscow Times, Russia's foreign ministry advises Aeroflot to avoid airspace near Tehran.

From Romania-Insider, three refugees from Libya try to rob passengers on a Romanian train.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.)

From Novinite, 2019 was a good year for Bulgarian exports.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Air Force pilots start training for the F-16.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Balkan Stream gas pipeline may become a victim of geopolitics.

From Ekathimerini, anti-abortion posters placed in the Athens Metro by a pro-life group are taken down.

From the Greek Reporter, a search continues for survivors from a migrant-laden boat which sank this past Saturday.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci urges Albin Kurti, whose party won the country's elections, to form a government.

From Total Croatia News, President Trump has an admirer of Croatian origin.

From Total Slovenia News, the Slovenian newspaper Večer wants the government to subsidize ski areas.  (The name Večer might mean "evening", since it appears to be a cognate of the Polish word wieczór.)

From the Malta Independent, Robert Abela is sworn in as Malta's prime minister.

From Malta Today, some background on new Prime Minister Abela.

From ANSA, the leader of Italy's Democratic Party does not want to bring the "sardines" movement into the party.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss people get ready to vote on "controversial" hunting reforms.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron meets with African leaders to boost the fight against jihadis in the Sahel.

From RFI, despite the French government's concession on the age of eligibility, strikes against proposed pension reforms continue.

From Euractiv, despite plans to ban the weedkiller glyphosate, its sales in France increase by 10 percent.

From El País, the new Spanish Cabinet is sworn in.

From The Portugal News, three Portuguese evangelical pastors are detained for allegedly aiding illegal migration and people trafficking.

From The Stream, the Vatican's alliance with China is even worse than we thought.

From the Daily Caller, supermodel Gigi Hadid is one of dozens of people showing up for jury duty in the trial of Harvey Weinstein.

From Breitbart, bishops in Texas oppose Governor Greg Abbott's (R) moratorium on refugee resettlement.

From LifeNews, abortions drop in Missouri, which has only one abortion facility.

From WPVI-TV, Philadelphia installs speed cameras on Roosevelt Boulevard.

And from Twitchy, TV host Bill Maher accidentally shows a big problem on the left in a Tweet comparing Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with former Vice President Joe Biden.

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